HCL Perot will recruit up to 600 software professionals in 2003.
"We will add 500-600 professionals in the calender 2003 to extensively serve our clients in the healthcare, travel, telecom and financial verticals and also the new verticals like government and retail," C P Gurnani, COO, HCL Perot, said in New Delhi.
In the last quarter, the company added 150 professionals, he said.
The company will tap campuses for hiring about 150 professionals and the remaining would be for lateral recruitment, he said, adding the idea is to develop solutions for specific verticals.
Two hundred people would be engaged in healthcare, 100 each would be for telecom, financial and travel verticals and the remaining for the new verticals, he added.
The company, however, ruled out any plans for the new activities like business process outsourcing.